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A Trip to Egypt: The Spirit of Moses

[ February 13, 2009 to February 28, 2009. ] I’m just about to leave for Egypt: Spirit Quest is leading “The Spirit of Moses” for two weeks.

Cairo, Alexandria, Aswan, Philae, Kom Ombo, Luxor, Karnak, Dendarah, Abydos, Edfu, Sakkara, Giza, Wadi Feran, Mt. Moses, St. Catherine’s Monastery.

I am so EXCITED about this trip. We’ll doing a spiritual pilgrimage through Egypt and to Sinai, sailing the Nile [...]

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Happenstance, Coincidence and the Divine Mind

I’ve been recently reminded again of the great genius that is constantly at work behind the everyday events that seem, at first blush, to be accidental.
I’ve just returned from leading a group to Egypt and during our visit to the Temple of Seti I in Abydos, I left the group of forty with my Egyptian [...]

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Tourism as an Act of Bravery

For the last eleven years in Egypt, independent travel to places like Abydos or Denderah was forbidden by the government. Numerous cities could only be visited by tourists who traveled together in armed convoys. Happily this decade-long restriction has been lifted. This might seem like ironic news in light of the recent horrific events in [...]

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Divide by Zero: A Spiritual Autobiography of Greg Roach

I think the best place to start is with my late adolescence – around age 10 or so. That’s when I first pursued an independent path of spiritual exploration.

I was raised as a tepid Episcopalian. We hit church for all the biggies: Xmas, Easter, funerals, etc. But God didn’t intrude much beyond that.

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